Natural Color Palette
I had carried my ukulele to the session and played some songs as we waited for everyone to assemble. Once all the little ones had arrived, we started with regular hello song and warm up. Salvin had a new game named house, tenant, flood. This game called for pair formations among participants, dissolving into chaos and then again into order. Afterwards, we introduced our much awaited intro exercise of visual arts. Salvin and children had a conversation about colors children are familiar with in the nature, such as color of leaves, flowers etc. then we all went out to collect few items from in and around our park. When we got back, we checked our ideas of color against what we had actually collected. For example, children, when asked what color are leaves, most certainly replies ‘green’. However when the leaves are actually paid close attention, we see a variety of colours, other than different shades of green, there are white, red, yellow, brown etc. W e used the collected material such...